Aside

Download a PDF of this CV

Contact

Language Skills

R
Python
SQL
Markdown
Bash
Cloud Tech
Javascript

Disclaimer

Made with the R package pagedown.

The source code is available on github.com/nstrayer/cv.

Last updated on 2022-08-07.

Main

Daniel Amieva Rodriguez (BETA FILE)

Im just a mizcli

Education

High School Diploma

Bishop Seabury Academy

Kansas, USA

N/A

Diploma Data Analytics with Python

Emtech

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado Historia Mundial

MIDE

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado Historias Comparadas de Desarrollo

MIDE

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado Historia de Mexico

MIDE

Cdmx, MX

N/A

Diplomado …….?

N/A

Cdmx, MX

N/A

BSc Economics

UNAM

Cdmx, MX

2020 - 2015

  • Focused on network models & interactive visualization platforms for electronic health records data
  • University Graduate Fellow

Data Science Summer School

Beihang University

Beijing, CH

2015 - 2011

  • Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana

Diploma Data Science

UNAM

Cdmx, MX

2013 - 2012

  • Independently analyzed and constructed statistical models for large data sets pertaining to carbon decomposition rates.

Industry Experience

Software Engineer

Remote

RStudio

Current - 2020

  • Helping make programming web applications with R easier and more beautiful on the Shiny team

Data Journalist - Graphics Department

New York, New York

New York Times

2016 - 2016

  • Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
  • Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.

Engineering Intern - User Experience

Burlington, VT

Dealer.com

2015 - 2015

  • Built internal tool to help analyze and visualize user interaction with back-end products.

Data Science Intern

Burlington, VT

Dealer.com

2015 - 2015

  • Worked with the product analytics team to help parse and visualize large stores of data to drive business decisions.

Data Artist In Residence

Carpinteria, CA

Conduce

2015 - 2014

  • Envisioned, prototyped and implemented visualization framework in the course of one month.
  • Constructed training protocol for bringing third parties up to speed with new protocol.

Software Engineering Intern

Carpinteria, CA

Conduce

2014 - 2014

  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Vanderbilt University

TBILab (Yaomin Xu’s Lab)

Current - 2015

  • Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
  • Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant patterns in data.

Data Science Researcher

Johns Hopkins University

Data Science Lab

2018 - 2017

  • Building R Shiny applications in the contexts of wearables and statistics education.
  • Work primarily done in R Shiny and Javascript (node and d3js).

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Vermont

Rubenstein Ecosystems Science Laboratory

2015 - 2013

  • Analyzed and visualized data for CATOS fish tracking project.
  • Head of data mining project to establish temporal trends in population densities of Mysis diluviana (Mysis).
  • Ran project to mathematically model the migration patterns of Mysis (honors thesis project.)

Human Computer Interaction Researcher

University of Michigan

LabInTheWild (Reineke Lab)

2015 - 2015

  • Led development and implementation of interactive data visualizations to help users compare themselves to other demographics.

Undergraduate Researcher

University of Vermont

Bentil Laboratory

2014 - 2013

  • Developed mathematical model to predict the transport of sulfur through the environment with applications in waste cleanup.




Teaching Experience

I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.

Javascript for Shiny Users

N/A

RStudio::conf 2020

2020

Data Visualization Best Practices

N/A

DataCamp

2019 - 2019

  • Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
  • Uses R and ggplot2.
  • In top 10% on platform by popularity.

Improving your visualization in Python

N/A

DataCamp

2019 - 2019

  • Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
  • Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.

Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

2018 - 2017

  • TA and lectured
  • Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
  • Highest level course offered in department

Advanced Statistical Computing

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

2018 - 2018

  • TA and lectured
  • Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
  • 4th year PhD level class

Statistical Computing in R

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department

2017 - 2017

  • TA and lectured
  • Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
  • Graduate level class

Selected Data Science Writing

I regularly blog about data science and visualization on my blog LiveFreeOrDichotomize.

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2019

  • Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
  • Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
  • Reached top of HackerNews.

Classifying physical activity from smartphone data

N/A

RStudio Tensorflow Blog

2018

  • Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
  • Contracted article.

The United States of Seasons

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2018

  • GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
  • Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.

A year as told by fitbit

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

  • Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
  • Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.

MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

  • Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
  • Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.

The Traveling Metallurgist

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

  • Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
  • Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.

Selected Press (About)

Great paper? Swipe right on the new ‘Tinder for preprints’ app

N/A

Science

2017 - 2017

  • Story of the app Papr made with Jeff Leek and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan.

Swipe right for science: Papr app is ‘Tinder for preprints’

N/A

Nature News

2017 - 2017

  • Second press article for app Papr.



Selected Press (By)

A Trail of Terror in Nice, Block by Block

N/A

The New York Times

2016 - 2016

  • Led research effort to put together story of 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France in less than 12 hours.
  • Work won Silver medal at Malofiej 2017, and gold at Society of News and Design.

Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks

Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD

N/A

Journal of Human Immunology

2015 - 2015

  • Authored with Richard Single, Vanja Paunic, Mark Albrecht, and Martin Maiers.